Its time to Improve your Skills, You May Post Your Tutorial in Wpc - Chill Zone and after approval , we shall move it here in this Thread. You can make a Tutorial for any Software you use for graphic manipulation Photoshop, Gimp etc (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif) , The Tutorial must include images with written instructions (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif) Thanks for your contribution and help (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) It will assist our friends to learn more about the softwares and Improve their skills in Wpc !

When it comes to designing a wallpaper, there are myriad ways one could use to achieve a desired result. Our WPC designers use techniques they are most confident as well as comfortable with, which is great because it’s always useful to peek into the workflow of our colleagues and learn new design approaches. So share your techniques and tricks which you have learned from your experiences. The host of this thread is Srimunna aka Sri/munna. I hope you will enjoy sharing your thoughts, experiences about Designing, kindly keep this thread neat, not for chatting purposes (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) thanks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

enna - thanks for your quick response to open this new threadaleena - we need your tips maha, u r great at everything i saw your suggestions from past few weeks so i got this idea asked enna about this so i should say thanks for your 1st.sagar - no matter sagar just we want your hand in this thread.galina - it's doesn't matter dear even am not perfect in english, i will wait for your tipsvino - thank u & be waiting for tips bro.sar - it's ok.raja - it will be my pleasure to share with you naanba, i will be waiting for your tips.

12. Eyedropper Tool to captures foreground color, hold Alt and click, it will capture the color for background.

13. When drawing a line with Measure Tool, if you hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first line, it will also measure the angle.

14. When using Marquee Tools, hold down Alt and it will make the click point as the center point of the selection.When using Brush Tool, or other Paint Tools, pressing the numbers on the numeral pad will alter the transparency. ([4=40%] or [press 4 then 5 will get 45%])

15. Hold Shift and press “+” or “-” it will change the layer and painting modes:

16. When you double click the gray background area, the “Open” command will run. (Works when no file is opened)

17. Double clicking on the title of any panel will minimize or maximize it.

18. All “Cancel” buttons in every Photoshop windows and tables, will be transformed into a “Reset” button by just holding Alt.

19. Pressing Tab will hide toolbar and panels, while Shift + Tab will only hide panels. This is one the most used trick in Photoshop.

20. Let’s have some fun, wanna change the grey background color outside the opened file, select Paint Bucket tool, hold shift and click. Voila! (works only when a file is opened)

21. Open a file and press F button, it switches among the 3 different screen modes so you can easily choose the best workspace for your current task.

22. Ctrl + Backspace and Alt + Backspace will fill in the whole image area with foreground color or background colors.

23. Pressing Shift + Backspace will pop-up the option window, Alt + Shift + Backspace and Ctrl + Shift + Backspace, will fill the image with foreground or background color but will not change the values in of the areas of alpha.

24. Ctrl+J makes a duplicate layer.

25. Ctrl + D to deselect everything, and Ctrl+Shift+D to reselect what you deselected.

26. You can show or hide a path by pressing Ctrl+shift+H

27. Pressing Ctrl+Tab allows you to toggles between opened image files.

28. Alt drag a step from a serial action can copy it to another action.

29. If you want to import an object from Illustrator to Photoshop, just Copy and Paste. Photoshop will ask you whether to import it as a vector or bitmap.

30. Double clicking the Hand Tool will provide you the largest full image preview possible.

31. Double clicking the Zoom Tool sets the zoom level to 100%.

32. Pressing X will swap the foreground and background colors.

33. Pressing D will reset the foreground and background colors to default (mostly Black and White)

34. Ctrl+Shift+N opens the new layer with a dialog box, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N creates a new layer, no questions asked.